Hypocrisy With Syrian WMD Disarmament? Decades Later, U.S. Still Has Chemical Weapons

Conference of States Parties number 12 to the Chemical Weapons Convention, organized by the en:OPCW in The Hague 2007 at the World Forum Convention Center. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Tooele, Utah (CNN) — Syria has been given a year to eliminate its chemical weapons arsenal, or face the threat of a U.S. military strike. Yet it may come as a surprise that the United States has still not destroyed all of its massive supply of deadly nerve agents.

In fact, neither has Russia. Both Washington and Moscow signed the Chemical Weapons Convention of the 1990s, which forbid the use, production and stockpiling of chemical weapons.

And both countries missed the convention’s extended deadline last year to destroy all of their chemical weapons.